From extracted files, open the Odin executable file in your computer and turn Off your device so as to enter your device in the Download Mode. Download mode can be entered by pressing Volume down Key, Center button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button after which a green robot will be shown indicating the Download Mode has been entered.

As soon as the device gets into the download mode, connect the same to your computer with the original USB Cable while keeping the Odin opened in your computer after which you will see that the ID : COM section will turn Yellow.

Note: if the ID : COM section doesn’t turn Yellow, you need to check with two things which are mentioned below,

Install the USB Drivers in your computer &

Go to the Path “Settings > Wireless & Network > USB Settings” and ensure that “Samsung KIES” option is ticked before connecting the phone to the computer.

Click on the below mentioned option in Odin by clicking on the corresponding tab which is “PDA”. All the files can be found in the extracted file. Once the above mentioned files are selected, you now need to click on “Start” to start the process of firmware update.

PDA –I9100XXLPQ_I9100OXALPQ_I9100XXLPQ_HOME.tar.md5

Now, re insert the battery and enter the device in the recovery mode. To enter into the recovery mode, press Volume Up Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button.

In the recovery mode, select Wipe data/factory reset and also you need to select Wipe Cache partition and then reboot your device by selecting reboot system now with the help of Volume rocker keys.

Note: At any point of time just in case if the process of firmware update gets stopped due to any reason, all you need to do is restart the process from the start by re inserting the battery.

That’s it congratulations, you have now successfully applied the firmware in your SAMSUNG Galaxy S2 GT I9100. Do let us know in the comments section just in case if you face any issues as we will try our level best to sort out the same.

Generally European builds are said to be far more stable and for all Samsung Galaxy S2 users can now rejoice as finally SAMSUNG Started rolling out the ICS Android 4.0.3 firmware which is dubbed as XXLPQ. For all those who are eagerly waiting to update an official version of ICS Android 4.0.3 firmware, this one will be the best one of the lot as its not only the official one but also is the most stable ROM firmware of ICS. In the due course of this article, we will check out not just the ...

Hi Pradeep, this is very disappointing that you said this will be the official update. But as the official update is released by Samsung in India now, my phone still says it can not be upgraded via Kies as the phone is not supported.
You should not have said that this is the official version.

Hi Pradeep, this is very disappointing that you said this will be the official update. But as the official update is released by Samsung in India now, my phone still says it can not be upgraded via Kies as the phone is not supported.
You should not have said that this is the official version.

Hi Pradeep, this is very disappointing that you said this will be the official update. But as the official update is released by Samsung in India now, my phone still says it can not be upgraded via Kies as the phone is not supported.
You should not have said that this is the official version.

hi guys for those of u living in south africa i have just upgraded to ics 4.0.3 on my galaxy s2 via my service provider vodacom yes its official guys and let me tell u its awesum you want it yesterday already no problems at all i got mine go and get urs ENJOY

i m using it on my galaxy s2 gt-i9100 in india.
its not official in india but its the most stable and best ics version available in the world and it does not require any root.
its just brilliant !!!Neela You Rock!!!

HI, at first You said “For Korean USERS: We will very soon be coming up with an article which will help you to update with the official version of firmware for your region.”
you mean users that live in korea or devices that are made in korea?
cause I live In Iran & My phone Is Made in Korea,
Can I Update my phone By this Or not?

How do I recover my paid and free downloaded apps after a restore? I’m kind of sorry I updated to Ice Cream Sandwich from Gingerbread. Other than the bigger clock visibility on the face page, I’ve been having nothing but weird troubles, phone shutting down, lost apps. Will I ever get my apps back without repaying for them? No more “wiping/resetting” for me, I’m afraid.

Hey Pradeep..
I was trying to install ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S2 with Official Indian ICS version.. but surprisingly my phone got soft-bricked and it shows “mobile icon–warning triangle–PC icon” ..
how do i get back from this condition without visiting a service center??
Please let me know.. am blocked
Thanks in advance..

can i come back to original factory firmware gingerbread 2.3.5 from this ics 4.0.3 if i wan’t satisfy ? and if there will be available this ics 4.0 in future through kies can i able to update or always need to update by odin ? plz make me clearify . thanks a lot

I upgraded to ICS following your instructions. Everything went ok. But now when I’m typing in my unlock password, its saying its incorrect. I have the numeric password which I’ve been using for months now, but its not accepting it. Please help as to how can I access my phone again.

I upgraded my phone with these steps and my phone is working very fine in the first shot without any trouble. YAY!!! Thanks.

The scrolling in ICS is very weird. When I am just trying to scroll normally the screen pauses for a split second and then it flicks very fast as if its trying to scroll page by page. Is this natural in ICS? I didnt find any settings for changing the scrolling behavior.

hi
The download failed and I’m stuck with a triangle a phone and a pc logo all the time no matter what I do, any help… already remove the connected usb cable and still I can’t restart the phone either…. please help!!!

Sorry i posted the same question but in the rooting thread so i guess it’s wrong , all i wanted to say is that if i installed this update , will i be able to play all my games apps … , cause i have heard that the ICS on galaxy s2 crashes in some apps , please help
thanks

I tried updating my firmware from gingerbread to ice cream sandwich on my samsung galaxy s2. But in the process i remembered i forgot to activate the USB debugging option and so i removed the battery to restart it. Now it is frozen and it shows on the screen a phone, 2 dots, a triangle ,2 dots and a computer….It cant even reboot again neither can it go into recovery mode or downloading mode. What should i do?????????

Hi,
i have updated my phone to this version when it came out and it looks a bit better then gingerbread, but i expected something extraordinary(due to the hussle that was made about ICS). It surely looks better and the biggest positive change i believe is the task manager and ability to move between tasks. The only bug i noticed untill now is that sometimes when you try to call a contact by swiping to the right, it stucks and screen goes black for 10-15 sec. Hope on the next update this issue gets fixed! thanks for the hard work you’re doing guys!

The one that used to show up under file manager as a place for file storage on Gingerbread.It was called “usbStorage”. That folder is no longer there. It was useful as it was often excluded from the gallery.

I installed the FC15 on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, I didn’t do the last step of going into Recovery Mode, and I was wondering, Can I do a Factory Reset and revert back to the original Sprint Factory Settings???

And if so, will that keep them from seeing that I used the pre-rooted FC15???

Help!!!
My phone after 5 days using this ROM started to fail. The battery blinks and every 2 minutes pop-up the message “Charging paused. Voltage too high”. When I unplugged the charger, in the phone it seems like is still connected. Help me plz!
I don’t know what to do, i’ve reinstalled, wipe everything, back to ICS official, and back to gingerbread and nothing. =(

Now there is another problem now when i turn the wifi through notification area it gets stuck and then i cant use the wifi!and the heating provlem is also very annoying it get gets extremely hot even when im not using it and u can say that its worse than the heating problem in ginger bread other than that the firmware is quite well

Hi,i backed up phone contacts, message etc using Kies. I have installed ICS 4.0.3 as above. It works fine and is faster, getting quicker wi-fi response and better internet access via data. Interface slightly changed so that is welcome as well. Only problem is that when I use Kies to ‘restore’ backed up data, it fails, any help? (latest Kies installed)

Hi,i backed up phone contacts, message etc using Kies. I have installed ICS 4.0.3 as above. It works fine and is faster, getting quicker wi-fi response and better internet access via data. Interface slightly changed so that is welcome as well. Only problem is that when I use Kies to ‘restore’ backed up data, it fails, any help? (I have latest Kies installed)
Thanks

I’m looking forward to your next ICS upgrade. This upgrade is no better than the gingerbread 2.3.5 i was using. Now my battery life is worse and my 3g/4g reception is worse. The menues and GUI in ICS are annoying so far, with exception of taskmanager. This ICS on my SGS2I9100 is causing twitter to freeze, internet browser to crash and causing issues with my “back” button. It doesn’t register then gets backed up after several clicks. I’m also having difficulty managing notification sounds and several apps are not compatable yet: such as GO SMS, Handscent and a few banking apps. Disappointed in ICS so far :(. But as always pradeep your tutorial and files work good.

HELP NEEDED::
i just updated my SGS2 to ICS and its working fine.. but just after i updated the firmware thru ODIN my phone restarted automatically and it started working fine with the latest firmware so i didnt goto the RECOVERY MODE to perform “Wipe data/factory reset and Wipe Cache partition”
so my question is if this last step (recovery mode) is important or not.. and now if i do “Wipe data/factory reset and Wipe Cache partition” so will it delete my data???

I have an Galaxy S2 which is currently having litening Rom v6.1 XXH3. Now I want to upgrade it to ICS firmware. So is it possible to get automatic update or do I have to upgrade it manually? I’m in India right now.

Hi everyone. can anybody help me.
I’ve upgraded my phone from this update about 2 weeks ago. Now the update already arrives for my country. The question is, should i stick with this firmware upgrade from EU? Are the firmware from each country the same? What are the pro’s and con’s of sticking with this firmware over the firmware that is already available for my country. BTW im from Philippines.
Thanks guys..

its working perfectly in my SGS2..
but i have one question… is it necessary to perform “Wipe data/factory reset and Wipe Cache partition”??? because as soon as the phone updated it automatically restarted and started working fine, so now is it necessary to go in the Recovery mode and Wipe data/factory reset and Wipe Cache partition as i missed this step??????

Hi i took backup via kies in Macbook pro.
Now i updated my SGS2 following above steps and now Kies is not able to detect my phone.I want to restore my backup files again ..
Please help me to restore my old backup data.
Thanks in advance…

hi
i have samsung galaxy s2 i9100 on firmware (pda:ki4 / phone:ki1 / csc:kh2 (xeu) ) 2.3.4
and i am in pakistan can i upgrade my phone with this firmware . thanks in advance.
And kiss says that this is the latest firmware

I´ve tried LPB, LP2, LP6 IN SGS2 from telcel mexico, non of this was satisfactory and turn my phone quite buggy, in fact, with lp6 firmware was´nt an able to write a minor sentence cause everything get slow…. in the edge of no return and thinking to go back to iphone 4s i stop in this web and try this one, all the system is now normal and fast as new. i´ll celebrate tonight thank´s to android advices team!!!

Everything seems to be working ok 24hrs later except for Navigon says “An errror has occurred. Activation has failed.” and Also the game Asphalt 6 HD will launch the intro video but when i try ans start the game it just go’s to a blank screen. Any ideas. dont really care about the game but I would like my navigation back..
Thanks Sav..

tried updating the firmware, but having a big problem with starting the phone. like a few others, the phone boots but shuts off and then reboots and shuts off again. this has happened for more than 10 times.

I have also noticed the battery draining a bit faster than previous firmwares; although this might be because ICS has additional features which probably add a bit more of a strain to the system.

In addition to that, I’m also having the problem of some applications randomly freezing and restarting (eg: whatsapp) when they didn’t before. Also my touch screen glitches with swype beta (non-stock swype) where the touch pad doesn’t respond or register between the first and second letter that I swype.

Will there be another ICS update (official or unofficial) soon? Or should I roll back to 2.3.6?

@Jason, i’m thinking the same thing, although i don’t want to roll back and then have pradeep release a sweet ICS upgrade. I was on GB 2.3.6 and now my battery life is worse, worse reception, and just overall glitchiness. Let me know if you hear if an upgrade is out soon, otherwise i’m rolling back too..

I have not done anything to my s2 and it used to connect with kies without any problems downloaded latest kies last night and phone wont connect now at all pc say must put device into kies pc mode which would normaly happen when screen is in idle mode could you please help

Hey Neela Pradeep this version has a bug. In the default music app equaliser setting.When I select equaliser as Rock & Sound Effect as Music Clarity the sound seems to get distorted. Any ideas on wat could be the solution to this?

Frankly did not see much changes… so far i can see only the screen can now scroll 360 degrees as compare to previous
XLPH 4.0.3. Anyway thanks for this update. Hopefully the official will come soon to Singapore.

I’m still quite new to this, but what is the significance of doing the Factory Wipe and Cache Wipe after installing the ROM. On my S2 I installed the ROM and the phone appears to be working fine with all my original settings and programs still intact. I’d prefer not to have to start sorting out all my apps, etc again. So I was wondering if doing the Factory Wipe and Cache Wipe is something that I really need to do.

Also i notice that Facebook doesnt appear to sync with my contact list? is this normal , are we just waiting for an update?

Hi have updated my S2 with this and it is actually perfect. The other versions of 4.0.3 all drained battery and phone was shutting off randomly, but this one is so stable.
In fcat battery life is so much better.
Thank you for this

Hi Droid
This ICS has removed the Rsap facility so no longer gives access to the phones SIM via a car Sat-Nav
Rsap is enabled on 2.3.6 and below but not here on ICS
Any comments or perhaps i am missing something after 3 hours of research?
Regards
Bill

I was just wondering, when i open kies i says that i cant update my phone through kies, the version isnt supported. Thought this was the official release for europe and then this should work. My friends got the update today through ota but i couldnt go that way because i didnt have an official update before. Was hoping this would get me back on track for these updates. I live in sweden.

Now, re insert the battery and enter the device in the recovery mode. To enter into the recovery mode, you need to turn Off your device so that you can enter your device in the Download Mode. Download mode can be entered by pressing Volume Down Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button ……

Thanks for the update,
Everything is working well, apart from the WIFI….
Please help me,,, whats the problem, ??
I have follow all the procedure (factory reset/wipe data, wipe cache, reboot)…tried this two times but facing the same problem.
Can anyone answer my question…why.?

Hi Neal, i just updated to ICS. its amazing….. thanks for the providing such a stable rom. But dont know why….. im unable to enter into the recovery mode. i tried Volume Up key + Home Key + Power on. but still im unable to enter into recovery mode. can ypu help me clearning the cache?

I did everything you explained, but I have and overheating and quick battery drainage problem, probably because of overheating. What can I do to fix this? I already installed for the second time, and the same happened. Should I roll back to the previous 4.0.3 version?

bro, I have got Galaxy s2, i bought it from one the NZ’s Mobile stores. So I have few questions:
1. How can I check from which country my Galaxy’s S2 firmware belongs to?
2. For which countries firmwares this ICS update is compatible?

Why have you not approved my post? I know the post has been submitted…10 times at the last count because I still get a duplicate error message. Or do you not approve negative posts on the performance and reliability of ICS?

Many thanks for that great job. I did not have any problem what-so-eve with the link or the download and the process went just so smoothly. I find it funny reading some of the comments on here, if people would just follow everything you say they would have no problem. I know that when I started rooting my phone I would inadvertently start the process without first puting the phone into download mode. again many thanks and keep up the good work .

I installed this update yesterday. It seems good, until I setup my corporate e-mail to SII. I can receive contacts and calenders, but I cannot receive emails, but on 2.3.6 I can receive e-mails with same settings.

Thanks guys.. works great.. though there is no UI change but there are some tweaks.. How I wish that Sammy removed the TW UI and placed some stock ics icons and stuff… but anyway.. its good that this is an official… hope the next update will be better than this… I used NOVA LAUNCHER to at least feel the ice cream os…

Well done, i just have a correction in the last part u say “Now, re insert the battery and enter the device in the recovery mode. To enter into the recovery mode, you need to turn Off your device so that you can enter your device in the Download Mode. Download mode can be entered by pressing Volume Down Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button.”, but i think it should be “Now, re insert the battery and enter the device in the recovery mode. To enter into the recovery mode, you need to turn Off your device so that you can enter your device in the recovery mode. recovery mode can be entered by pressing Volume Up Key + OK button, and holding both simultaneously press the Power Button.”

// Click on the below mentioned option in Odin by clicking on the corresponding tab which is “PDA”. All the files can be found in the extracted file. Once the above mentioned files are selected, you now need to click on “Start” to start the process of firmware update.

PDA – I9100XXLPQ_I9100OXALPQ_I9100XXLPQ_HOME.tar.md5

Now, re insert the battery and enter the device in the recovery mode…..//

Excuse me, but there is no step before this instructing us to remove the battery. So what is meant by “re insert battery” – Or do you mean we should remove the battery and reinsert once before entering the device in recovery mode?

Obviously no one using Static settings as no one has reported if it works or not. If this is the final its pretty lame…. looks like I will be sticking to GB then. Hopefully either this is just me being very stupid or something that will be fixed soon. Tried everything and will not save IP and dns settings.. Maybe a 3rd party app will sort it but that’s not the point.
:o))

Hey broda my phone is running Superfast Lightning Rom….So do i need to do any other version or rom before i proceed for this ICS rom…or i can proceed straight away with Superfast Lightning Rom..???..plz rply asap…i cant wait ne more installng this rom..!!
Thnx bro.!!

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I installed XXLPQ poland.. are we sure its Official version? My phone doesnt not support KIES . message.. also.. Build it shows Se.infra…. ?
firmware.. XXLPQ (KOR) it shows in KIES. and says does not support upgrade via KIES..

@Neela Pradeep,
Hi There, I have purchased a generic samsung galaxy s2 from china. Everything is fine with the phone but the android version is in chinese, is there a easy way to change this to english? I am not very technical at these sort of things thats why I have put easy way.
Thanks.